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You've Heard of Sleep Walking, But What About Sleep Emailing?

You all know about sleep walking (any sleep walkers out there?), and sleep eating, which I wrote about recently, but what about sleep emailing? Yeah, it's real, say experts, and really embarrassing, too. Ever happened to you?

**** The gals over at Cranky Fitness wrote about this odd phenomenon they've named zzz-mail (cute, huh?). They say that researchers recently reported about a woman who suffers from uncontrollable sleep emailing.

The researchers point out that the emails "were perhaps not up to the woman's waking standard; each was in a random mix of upper and lower case characters, badly formatted and containing odd expressions. One read: 'Come tomorrow and sort this hell hole out. Dinner and drinks, 4.pm. Bring wine and caviar only.' Another said simply: 'What the...'"

While it's kind of funny, it also sounds kind of frightening! What if you emailed your boss to tell her what you really thought of her? Or confessed our love to someone who you had a secret crush on. Eek.